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Markus Zusak
Age: 49
Born: 1975
Born: January 1
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Sydney
NSW
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It's a lot easier, she realized, to be on the verge of something than to actually be it. This would still take time.
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Shadows of cloud lurked in the water, like holes the sun forgot about.
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You’re a human, you should understand self-obsession.
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A fighter can be a winner, but that doesn't make a winner a fighter.
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I say, 'Don't lose your heart, Rube.' And very clearly, without moving, my brother answers me. He says, 'I'm not tryin' to lose it, Cam. I'm tryin' to find it.
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I just know that right now, we want to be proud. For once. We want to take the struggle and rise above it. We want to frame it, live it, survive it. We want to put it in our mouths and taste it and never forget it, because it makes us strong.
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As we walk back, it feels like the city is engulfing us. Adrenalin still pours through our veins. Sparks flow through to our fingers. We've still been running in the mornings, but the city's different then. It's filled with hope and with bristles of winter sunshine. In the evening, it's like it dies, waiting to be born again the next morning.
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It's hard to not like a man who not only notices the colors, but speaks them
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An eleven-year-old girl is many things, but she is not stupid.
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Outside is dark. The kitchen light is loud. It deafens me as I walk towards it.
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You cannot be afraid, Read the book. Smile at it. It's a great book-the greatest book you've ever read.
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Like most misery, it started with apparent happiness.
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A small fact: You are going to die....does this worry you?
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Yes, I'm often reminded of her, and in one of my array of pockets, I have kept her story to retell. It is one of the small legion I carry, each one extraordinary in its own right. Each one an attempt - an immense leap of an attempt - to prove to me that you, and your human existence, are worth it.
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Clearly, I see it. I was just about to leave when I found her kneeling there. A mountain range of rubble was written, designed, erected around her. She was clucthing at a book.
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Liesel's blood had dried inside of her. It crumbled. She almost broke into pieces on the steps.
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If you ever write a book, I can only give you one piece of advice. Don't let your parents get involved.
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for some reason, dying men always ask the question they know the answer to. perhaps it's so they can die being right.
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I think to be writer you have to enjoy being alone. I was a loner as a teenager and was always drawn to characters in books and films who were at the fringes.
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It was a Monday and they walked on a tightrope to the sun.
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